About two years ago I  published on this bog the post which became a big hit – it was about choosing the right certification for project manager (for yourself). It’s the high time to make the post up-to-date. There will be a small giveaway [...]

I’d like to inform you that from November 25th to November 26th 2010 in Warsaw, the 5th International Poland Chapter 2010 will take place.

The congress will be preceded by ‘Recognizing and resolving project conflict’ workshop led by Steve Flannes – the expert in interpersonal skills of project managers.

Personally, The fifthv International PMI Congress [...]

I’ve just recived an e-mail about with a very special offer, you don’t to buy anything but you will gain a free access (valid till the end of June’2010) to books on: ITIL, Prince2, Managing Successful Projects, Managing Sucessful Programmes, P3O,…

Over a year ago I wrote an article about free Microsoft Project files browser / reader. I described the application called Live Project made by Kadonk.  Live Project has proved to be a great viewer of mpp files, dealing both with older versions of files such as MS Project and MS Project 2007 [...]

I would like to thank you for the many comments, tips and suggestions to the previous two parts of the article. The second part of the post was particularly popular, it compares Certification: PRINCE2, PMI (PMP) and the IPMA. As promised (though much later) the next part of the article will address mainly [...]

The second part of the FAQ about earning PDUs and PMP recertification. Please enjoy it, I hope it will help you earn required numbers of PDUs to renew ourr PMP certificate.

At the special request of my friends I’m presentin a post about how to renew the PMP certification, and in particular how to obtain required by the PMI – 60 PDUs credits.

The most important formal conditions to be met in order to extend the validity of PMP certification (without need to re-testing) are: [...]

Finally, I’ve got some time to finish the table witha comparioson of the most popular project management certifications families: PMP, Prince2 and IPMA.

The following table compares 3 certificates, you can also download the full version of the table (CAPM, PMP, PgMP, Prince2 Foundation, Prince 2 Practitioner, IPMA-D, IPMA-C, IPMA-B, IPMA-A certificates)

There is a very good time of the year to make a New Year’s resolution. One resolution in the professional life can be: ‘to obtain a certificate in project management’. But you can easily find several different certificates that are issued by different organizations. Which one to choose? I hope that, this article will help you [...]

Last month I tried to answer the following question: “how to win people to project management, and show the value provided by project management”. While writing article doubts appeared, how can anyone be sure that project management contribute any value?

Last week I got an answer to that [...]

One of the many problems which PMOs / P3Os are facing is how to convince middle and operational management to the idea of project management.

Not so long ago I wrote about OGC plans to create the P3O standard, whose goal is to describe work conducted by project management offices. But what does the modern project management office look like? On behalf of PMI, Brain Hobbs from the University of Quebec did research on [...]

In the near future, the name of your project management office  may be changed to the P3O – Portfolio, Programme and Project Office.

Last February PMI published a draft version of PMBOK 4th edition. Everyone interested in project management could freely read this publication and put forward the suggestions. The final version of PMBOK standard will be published by this year’s end. What are the latest proposals of PMI?

The post will be translated into English soon.